Head-frame and haunch-reinforce for steel buildings.



0'. H SNYDER. HEAD FRAME AND HAUNOH REINFORGE FOR STEEL BUILDINGS.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY 31, 1912.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

building of great strength and rigidit can by this method be erected quickly an economically.

. By the use of the term steel columns I include as a matter of course a cast iron c01- umn, or any metal column having inherent I rigidity.

Havmg thus described my invention, what- I I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A cantaliver head frame for steel build-' ing construction, consisting in the combination with a solid metal flanged column having inherent rigidity and designed to carry all the load, of a flanged girdle secured to ,the column beneath the plane of a floor level and transmitting the floor load to the metal column, said girdle being adapted to be po- CHRISTOPHER HQSNYDER.

Witnesses: I WALDO E. Doves, ELsm DUTTON. 

